Word: giftedness
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THE BOTTOM LINE: At 50, a gifted daughter still yearns unrequitedly for the approval of her remote, now dead, genius father.
Films like Blade Runner handle atmospherics of this kind easily. It takes a gifted sleight-of-mind artist to work such phantasmagorical effects in a novel without fuddling or exasperating the reader. Erickson manages the trick expertly. But why the priestly Gestapo of "Church Central" in this alternate America? Because...
There are certain species of athletes. There are the talented, histrionic media-animals (the Deion Sanders/Keith Elias breed, given to uncontrollable yapping) and the rara avis. the gifted, modest, controlled class of athlete.
Of course this show isn't the end of civilization as we know it, but it's glum, preachy, sophomoric and aesthetically aimless. Indifferent to pleasure, it becomes college-level art for college-level thinking about civic virtue. Part of the trouble is that the Whitney, like a swimmer clutching...
THE BOTTOM LINE: Vivid vignettes of racial and sexual violence among the urban poor announce the arrival of a gifted writer.